Shoe hanger



July 7,1931. H U 1,813,573

SHOE HANGER Filed May 17, 1930 'IIIIIIIIII Patented July 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SI-IOE HANGER Application filed May 17,

This invention relates to supports and has special reference to a shoe and slipper holder.

One important object of the invention is to provide an improved wire structure having means for engaging in and supporting a pair of shoes, slippers or the like.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this character adapted to be carried by the side rail of a bed so that slippers supported thereby will be always easy of access.

WVith the above and other objects in view, as will be presently understood, the invention consists in neral of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters of reference indicate like parts in the severalviews, and:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device attached to a bed rail.

Figure 2 is an end view of the device as shown in Figure 1, part of a slipper being shown in dotted lines as hung on the support. In the embodiment of the invention here shown the invention consists of two lengths of wire, a longer piece forming the main frame and a shorter piece forming a brace.

The longer piece has a straight central portion 10 at each end of which is a short hook portion 11 extending in planes at right angles to the portion 10 and in the same direction therefrom. The wire is bent back from these portions 11 in said planes and at acute angles to the portions 11 to form rail top engaging portions 12. Hanger portions 13 extend downwardly from the portions 12 at right 4 angles thereto and in said planes. The terminal portions of this wire are bent to form spaced arches 14 lying in a plane at an acute angle to a plane passing through the hanger portions 13. The remaining wire is a straight wire 15 which lies in the bends be- 1930. Serial No. 453,370.

tween the portions 13 and said arches and is soldered to the legs of said arches at the contacting points. Thus these arches are laterally braced.

In use the arches extend outwardly from the rail R and the slippers have their toe portions hooked on the arches as shown in Figure 2.

There has thus been provided a simple and efiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified.

It is obvious that minor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material spirit thereof. It is not, therefore, desired to confine the invention to the exact form herein shown and described, but it is desired to include all such as properly come within the scope claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A slipper hanger including a length of wire having a straight central portion bent at its ends to provide a pair of bed rail engaging hooks, each end of the wire being further continued from the end of a respective hook portion downwardly to form a hanger portion, the ends of the wire being bent upwardly at acute angles to the hanger portions to form outer arch sides, each hook portion, its hanger portion and its outer arch sides having their axes in a common plane at right angles to the central portion, said ends being further bent inwardly from the tops of the outer arch sides and then downwardly to form inner arch sides, said arch sides all having their axes in a common plane.

2. A slipper hanger including a length of. wire having a straight central portion bent at its ends to provide a pair of bed rail engaging hooks, each end of the wire being further continued from the end of a respective hook portion downwardly to form a hanger portion, the ends of the wire being bent upwardly at acute angles to the hanger portions to form outer arch sides, each hook portion, its hanger portion and its outer arch side having their axes in a common plane at right angles to the central portion, said ends being further bent inwardly from the tops of the outer arch sides and then downwardly to form inner arch sides, said arch sides all having their axes in a common plane, and a brace wire having its ends held in the angles between the hanger portions and outer arch sides and fixed thereto.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

HELEN C. HUESTIS. 

